Comment 9 for bug 1589798

Thanks very much for your research!

It's a shame Cinnamon discriminates; in Lubuntu (LXDE) the Status Icon Plugin is present and works fine immediately. Audacious-plugins is probably required, see: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/i386/audacious-plugins/filelist

Regarding MPRIS/Dbus, isn't that only necessary if you need access to a media player's controls? What about simply https://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-0.3.html ?

I guess it might be prudent though, to adopt a method that would be easier to add features to in the future, which would be MPRIS.

I went hunting for Mac solutions, but the default dock there doesn't seem like it would benefit from this. However, I'm not working from experience, I've almost never used Mac.